hand over fist

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   at a tremendous rate

   “made money hand over fist”

Questions about hand over fist

What does hand over fist mean?

hand over fist means "at a tremendous rate".

Is hand over fist a common word?

hand over fist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.